Territory Nouveau 19: Circumstances of Departure

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Six hundred and eighty. Six hundred and eighty years. That’s how long it would take you to get from Earth to Pluto in the 21st Century.

In the 28th, moving at near-light speed with a nice boot drive, it wouldn’t even take two weeks. It’d be a fucking pleasure cruise. Smoothest tenday of your life, with the right crew.

Of course that’s what it always comes down to, isn’t it? You can have the shiniest ship in the Territory; best in the RSU, Commonwealth, or the Freeholds, fresh off the shipyards. Without a good crew, a crew that works together, that gels, a crew who won’t be at eachothers throats at a pin drop, you might as well be shooting yourself out of a cannon. You might get farther, anyway.

No, a good crew is worth its weight in unregistered anchor parts, and nobody but nobody gets anywhere without people behind you who you can count on, people who want what you want.

And if you’ve got some passengers you don’t agree with, or some crewmates you rubbed the wrong way or who put you off, here’s some perspective that might change your tune.

Just be glad it’s ten days, and not six hundred and eighty goddamn years.

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In today’s episode, we get underway for our long journey to Earth. A ten-day trip with two armed killers aboard isn’t exactly anyone’s idea of a vacation, but how will the crew of the Vehement fare under this duress? We pull rank, make some upgrades, and dread what’s yet to come.

This week on Play By Podcast: Territory Nouveau 19: Circumstances of Departure

Play By Podcast is Michael Collins (@arealwriter), Leon Barnes (@SlapKatZ), Liam Higgins(@liamhiggins97), and Max Coe (@_NotMyDivision_)
Cover Art by Ariel Corrales (@arielcorrales_)
Music by Cody Ojea (@CodyOjea)